Protocol for Scientific Journal

Current Research Journal of Pharmaceutical and allied Sciences (CRJPAS) is a
multidisciplinary peer reviewed open assess International Journal. The Journal publishes
online original research and review manuscripts pertaining to area of specialization in the
field of pharmaceutical and allied Sciences. The Journal welcomes all manuscripts on the
strict condition that the works should have not been published elsewhere, or in press nor
are they under any consideration for publication elsewhere that will produces conflict of
interest. The Journal employs a strict plagiarism detection system. By submitting your
manuscripts to the Journal, signify that the authors have accepted the agreement for
plagiarism screening.
CRJPAS is an official journal of Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Pharmaceutical
Science (GIPS) and will be particularly aimed to globally strengthen the research and
development in the field of pharmaceutical sciences and allied areas related to pharmacy.
The Journal will publish research/review/short-communications articles related to
the following current areas:
Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical technology, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy/Natural
products, Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Novel drug
delivery system, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, genomics, bio-informatics,
microbiology, biochemistry.

2. OBJECTIVES

(A) To provide a basic platform for various eminent academicians/researchers/scientists
to interact related with the novel research in the field of pharmaceutical and allied
sciences.
(B) To promote the basic knowledge and aptitude thereby solving the problems faced in
the manufacturing, processing, optimization and formulation of drugs.
(C) To foster and execute quality research articles free from plagiarism, by maintaining
timely peered reviewing process.

3. PUBLISHING POLICY

3.1.1. General information:
3.1.1.1. All manuscripts shall be submitted via. online process of the Journal (Weblink).

3.1.1.2. All manuscripts shall be screened for preliminary phase. Manuscripts with low
quality will be rejected by the editors and shall not be passed to the reviewing
stage.

3.1.1.3. The manuscript which passes the preliminary stage will be assign a specific
manuscript number and will be subjected to atleast 2 reviewer’s expertise in the
particular field.

3.1.1.4. Based on the comments of the reviewers the manuscript will be decided for
improvement/ re-submission or it can be rejected as per the Journal policy.

3.1.1.5. Manuscripts which need to be improved shall be given a speculated time (approx.
1 month) for re-submitting the revised manuscript to the Journal. Two reminders
will be sent to the corresponding author in case for late submission, failure of
which the manuscript will remain rejected.

3.1.1.6. Revised manuscript will again be subjected for reviewing process, until the
reviewers accept and declare the final revision of the manuscript.

3.1.2. Animal and clinical studies ethics

3.1.2.1. Research incorporating experimental animal models must strictly state in the
Methods section that the research was conducted after the prior approval and
acceptance of the institutional animal ethical committee or equivalent authorized
body and shall also state in accordance with the internationally accepted
principles for laboratory animal. The reference number of the letter of acceptance
from the committee/authorized body shall also be stated in the method section.

3.1.2.2. Investigation performing clinical trials on human subjects must state in the
Methods section that the research performed was done following the guidelines
of the Declaration of Helsinki and Tokyo for humans, and was approved by the
institutional human experimentation committee or equivalent, and authorized
informed consent was obtained which shall be produced to the Journal when
required. For any doubts appeared before the editors in relevant to the animal or
human ethics, the Journal will directly reject the manuscript.

3.1.3. Declaration of interest
3.1.3.1. Conflict of interest: Authors who are interested to submit their manuscript to the
Journal are requested to state and declare any conflict of interest related to any
actual or potential matters pertaining to financial, personal, social or other
relationships with other people or organizations. For no conflict of interest, the
authors should simply state in the manuscript as in "Authors report no conflict of
interest"

3.1.3.2. Submission declaration: Submission of manuscript to CRJPAS signifies that the
authors accept the Journal’s policy and ethics and the work described has not
been published elsewhere as full papers/articles (except in the form of an abstract
or presented in any conferences/symposiums/workshop). The submitted article
will be subjected to preliminary screening to check the duplicity and plagiarism.
If any doubt arises related with the work, the Journal will directly reject the
article.

3.1.4. Changes to authorship or correspondent addresses
Before submitting the manuscript the corresponding author along with the coauthors
shall carefully check the list and order of authors provided with the
affiliation locations of the work that was carried out. For any matters related with
the addition/deletion/rearrangement/typological mistake, the Journal will only
accept changes before the acceptance of the manuscript which later on won't be
entertained for any changes. To request such changes, the corresponding author
with the consent of the co-authors shall write to the Editor stated the following
particulars:

(i) The reason for the change in author list
(ii) Written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all co-authors that they agree
with the addition/removal/rearrangement/typological errors.
Only in some special and exceptional circumstances, the Editor will consider
changes in relevant to the addition/deletion/rearrangement/typological errors of
authors after the manuscript has been accepted. However, the manuscript shall
remain delayed for publication for such circumstances.

3.1.5. Copyright agreement for publishing the article
Upon the final acceptance of the manuscript, the author(s) will be asked to
complete a 'Journal Copyright form' (Click here for more information). The
authors need NOT to initially send the copyright form until and unless their
manuscript has been provisionally accepted by the Journal management
committee. Upon acceptance, an e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author
confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Copyright form'.
The particulars of the copyright form shall be carefully signed by all the coauthors
and send to the Journal e-mail address for further processing of their
article.

3.1.6. Acknowledgements and role of the funding source
At the time of preparation of the manuscript the authors are advice to state the
brief information for the role of the funding sources (with their grant number)
related with the financial support provided during the tenure of the work. In
addition, the authors can also state the role of any collaborators who directly or
indirectly contribute to the development of the manuscript, ranging from the
study design, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report, and in the
decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) or
collaborators had no such involvement then kindly state 'No funding was
provided for this work'.

3.1.7. Language (usage and editing services)
The authors should thoroughly compile the manuscript in good English
(American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). For
grammatical check, the authors are advice to subject their manuscript via. online
software for grammatical/spell check available in the internet.

3.2. GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS.
3.2.1. Introduction
Manuscripts submitted to the journal will be accepted on the basis that:
(a) They are subject to peer self reviewed in terms of grammatical and typological
errors.
(b) They have not been and will not be published in whole or in part in any other
journal.
(c) The strict recommendations of the ethical guidelines as accepted principles for
the use of experimental animals that describe experiments which have been carried
out under approval of an institutional or local ethics committee.
3.2.2. Type of Articles
(A) Research articles: The original research articles will be considered whose
length is not limited and should include the Title, abstract, materials and
methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, Conflict
of interest and References.
(B) Review articles: The review articles will be considered whose length is not
limited but the whole manuscript must be clearly presented with novel
innovations and ideas.
(C) Short communication articles: Original research concise articles/reports
whose length is limited to 3-4 printed pages (2000-3000 words including Title,
abstract, materials and methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusions,
Acknowledgements, Conflict of interest and References).
(D) Letter to editors: The Journal welcomes letters of suggestions related to
innovative ideas and knowledge pertaining to the development and smooth
function of the Journal.
3.2.3. Preparation of Manuscript
The manuscripts should be written clearly in Microsoft word format and should be
submitted by online system (webpage link). The text should be written in singlecolumn
format. Try to keep the layout of the text as simple as possible and do not
use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, it
is more acceptable to use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When
preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual
table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align
columns.

Article structure (systematic format)

(A) Title page:
• Title: The title of the manuscript should be concise and informative. Titles are
often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae
where possible.
• Authors name and affiliations: All the authors including the corresponding author
shall provide their full names (First, middle and last name) below the title of the
manuscript. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was
done) below the names. If the article is collaboration works which bears authors
from different departments/institute/university, kindly categorise and provide the
specifications of each author’s affiliations by assigning a lower case superscript
letter system after every author’s name (eg. James Simpsona, Fin Lui Chanb).
• Corresponding author with affiliation: The manuscript must be submitted by the
person who is the sole in charge of correspondence at all stages of the reviewing
process, production, and post-publication. The corresponding author should
provide his/her name, designation, affiliation, phone numbers (with country and
area codes), e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details of the>
other authors must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.
(B) Abstract with keywords:
The abstract should be written clearly, concise and limited to 300 words. The
abstract should state the purpose of the research/review, the principal results and
an informative conclusion. Abstract for research articles can be divided into Aim
& objective, material and methods, results, conclusion. However, for review
articles it can be represented in a single informative paragraph.Keywords: Input not more than six key words. These keywords should be
informative and will help the Editors to categorize your article accurately and
process it more quickly. Avoid abbreviations, plural terms and multiple concepts
for keywords.(C) Manuscript:
Note: Divide your articles headings clearly into sections and subsections. Sections
should be numbered in numerical (eg. 1, 2, 3, 4……); whereas subsection of each
section should be represented in numerical (eg. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3…….2.1, 2.2, 2.3,
2.4……). For multiple subsections the authors can extended the numerical
representation such as 1.1.1., 1.1.2., 1.1.3. Each heading should appear on its own
separate lines.• Introduction
Introduction bears the statement of the background of the work which provides the
objectives and informative co-relations of the works based on cross-referencing.
The authors should avoid the detailed literature survey which is unnecessary.• Material and methods
This section provides the detailed structure of the manuscript to allow the work to
be reproduced clearly. Methods already published elsewhere should be indicated
by a reference. This section also bears any representation of the methodological
formulae used for calculations. Statistic analysis if any should be written clearly.• Results
The result section should be concisely written. Indicate the table and Figure
number at specified area of the text. Tables and figures should be represented and
attached separately from the manuscript. They can be separately supplied as
different files.Figures artwork: Figures should be clearly supplied which can be either in JPEG
or TIFF images. The resolution of the figures should not be less than 300 dpi.
Each figure should bear a caption/legend and a number at the specified path.
Table: Table should be simple and justifiable and should bear a caption/legends
provided with a table numbers at the specified path.• Discussion
This section should represent the significance of the results of the work. A
combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate and acceptable.
Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature. Only use the
relevant references that support the work with a reproducible co-relation.• Conclusion
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in short and should be
concise and informative. The conclusion should be supplied based on the present
research with justifiable future perspective.• Acknowledgements
This section bears various categories of support such as the funding sources of the
work supplied with the funding grant numbers if any, list of the individuals with
affiliations who provided help and support during the research.
If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following
sentence:
'No funding was provided for the present research.'• Conflict of interest
There should be no conflict of interest in respect with the manuscript submitted.
For any conflict of interest, the authors should disclose any actual or potential
conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with
other people or organization in relation with the work done. However, if there is
no conflict of interest, the authors should write the following sentence at the
specified path (Authors report no conflict of interest).• References
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference
list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not
recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these
references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard
reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication
date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a
reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication and a
copy of the title page of the relevant article must be submitted.